Curation update 5/23/13

       This will be last last and final blog entry for my high school career! As sad as it will be, this will be a final update to my curation project. I have decided to scratch my prezi idea and go with a website. I feel as if users will be able to navigate through the website more easily than through prezi. With prezi I have more of a PowerPoint feel to it but you can only go one way.
       Another reason I switched back to my website was because I can more easily put videos on the page. On several of my tabs I can put multiple videos pertaining to hockey on at once. Plus I can spread them out into my liking.
       As far as content goes, I have found some helpful videos and tutorials to give viewers who aren't familiar with hockey an idea of what I'm talking about. I have also found some videos in which I ask the user whether the referee made the right call for users who are already familiar with hockey. Yesterday I finished my offsides tab and have nearly finished my icing tab. I just started my penalties tab and ironically, after watching the Chicago Blackhawks play last night, I may have found a great example of  bad penalty calls. I hope there is a video of it on YouTube.

Curation: 5/15/13

This past week I decided to restart my project with a different approach. I decided to put the website aside and make a prezi. I like the idea of a PowerPoint like structure so someone looking will go though the PowerPoint the way I feel fits best. I can set up my own transitions and segways into each topic. But I still like the idea of users being able to navigate through a website and pick what they want to look at. I think I'm going to save both ideas and as I progress through I will eventually choose one. Hopefully the choice will be easy but I guess we will see.

Curation Progress

This week I started working on my curation project. I picked the story of why the Amateur hockey league's should adopt NHL rules and play style. I wanted to inform others on certain rules that would benefit youth hockey and already benefit professional hockey. I wanted to create a website with several links to each aspect of the game I want to change.
       I struggled though decided between making the website or making a Prezi. With Prezi i can have more of an interactive power-point look to it but on a website I can individually have separate pages for each topic with its own comment and post section for viewers to express their opinion. Both offer great organization and I hope I made the right decision by making a website, right now I fell it was the right choice. The overall design is pretty simple. A home page with an about me section and some new on current hockey. Along with that I will include what this website is all about. Then I have several tabs linking one to each subtopics page explaining more about that rule. I would also like to include a reactions page, which is different reactions from people I ask.
       What I need to find out more of is how exactly this rule change would affect a player. I already know that I would like it but I need more opinions that just mine. Maybe even find someone who is against it and find out why. In my website I want to include a page just dedicated to different peoples perspective on  these rule changes. Not all just one-sided.

Best of today: curation

Today we are researching a topic for our curation project. I really like the idea of it because it gives us a chance to talk about a topic we are interested into. For me I really love hockey and I wanted to talk about my favorite hockey teams. But I decided to change it up a little. Instead I want to talk about the top 10 teams in the National Hockey League. Maybe even talk about my predictions for the playoffs.

To start I would put the Blackhawks at number one. Not only because there my favorite team but the were number one all season and have a great lineup. In describing which teams are best I would talk about who on their team has the greatest impact and maybe even what they could do better. I am really excited to make this curation 

Mashup Process: 4/22/2013

     When starting to create my mashup, I still had some thoughts about my writing prompts were still lingering in my head. One particular prompt that was stuck in my head was patience. Lucky for me this just happened to be one of the topics for the mashup. 

     So I looked through our book, Letter’s to A Young Poet, and I was able to find a couple quotes on patience. My subtopic dealt with growing up and how it’s not always an easy process. I then proceeded to find a few quotes on the internet which were pretty inspiring like, “Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come “(Robert Schuller). He is basically saying despite the bad things going on now, eventually the storm will pass and good will come.

     Doing this mashup was a very cool experience because it allowed me to play around with different works and put them all together. It was fun and inspiring to find different quotes on patience. If i could i would do it again with a different topic such as writing or religion.

Connection: Frank Gehry project & Game Design

     The past week we have been working on our Frank Gehry design projects. My group had to design a resurgent according to the specifications provided by our client. An most architects or building designers do, we created a floor plan of our project and then began building and changing things we did and did not like.
     This can relate specifically to my game design class. In my game design class, we design levels for  video games. We start by drawing a floor plan of our map and as we build our map we correct or change certain things we like. Some maps solely rely on one building as our map, which make this Frank Gehry project more like game design. Just like any good restaurant, there has to be tables, chairs lights, decorations and such. The same thing applies to game design. The more decorations and details you put into it, the more realistic it will look. You want your player to think he is inside of an actual restaurant and the only way to really do that is add details. For example, lets say I wanted to recreate GBS in my game design program (which I am currently working on). If i just make the hallways and classrooms without chairs, benches or tables it would not look the same. Even the textures I use to create the carpet and walls matter, everything down to the ceiling tiles can matter when designing houses restaurants and game design levels.
     Both the Frank Gehry project and my game design class have many similarities in that they both revolve around designing. Hopefully I will pursue a career in game design because my drawing skills are that of a blind monkey but my computer design skills are much more realistic.

Blogging around

In this issue of blogging around, I commented on Taso's connection blog in racism. In his blog he talked about racism in soccer. FIFA, soccer's federation has come up with a new rule regarding racism during games. In short, if people start making racists comments towards players, the game can be called of or forfeited. I commented on my thoughts about this rule and I also enjoyed reading and learning about soccer.

    I have never heard of that rule. It is interesting how and why FIFA made this rule. It is a bit harsh but I can see how it works. I feel a little indifferent about it because on one hand you want to stop racism but on the other, the game should not be tossed just because the fans are to rowdy. But at least they are trying to do something.

For my second comment I read Brittany's  captured thought on high school. She talked about the difference of graduating middle school and high school, in particular the good bye part of it. I comments on my thoughts and the difference between each. Here is my comment below.

     Wow! I completely agree. It is much harder to say goodbye in high school than in middle school. I believe one reason for this is in high school you become more of an adult. As an adult you are more mature and closer with your friends than in middle school. So saying goodbye to a really close friend you have known for at least four years is hard.